GHSA-vg3r-rm7w-2xgh

REXML contains a denial of service vulnerability

Source: GitHub Advisory Database (reviewed) Moderate CVE-2024-35176

Packages

Ecosystem	Package	Affected	Fixed in
RubyGems	rexml	< 3.2.7	3.2.7

Details

As written in the advisory (Markdown source, shown as plain text).

### Impact The REXML gem before 3.2.6 has a DoS vulnerability when it parses an XML that has many `>`s in an attribute value. If you need to parse untrusted XMLs, you may be impacted to this vulnerability. ### Patches The REXML gem 3.2.7 or later include the patch to fix this vulnerability. ### Workarounds Don't parse untrusted XMLs. ### References * https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2024/05/16/dos-rexml-cve-2024-35176/

References

External links from the advisory. They lead to third-party sites.

https://github.com/ruby/rexml/security/advisories/GHSA-vg3r-rm7w-2xgh web
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-35176 advisory
https://github.com/ruby/rexml/commit/4325835f92f3f142ebd91a3fdba4e1f1ab7f1cfb web
https://github.com/ruby/rexml package
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/01/msg00011.html web
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20250306-0001 web
https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2024/05/16/dos-rexml-cve-2024-35176 web